Malware Stealing Money by Pretending to be Whatsapp, GooglePlay and Other Famous Apps

Hackers always
seek to steal money from credit cards and other financial information. They are
actively stealing credit card and other financial information using malware. In
Europe, a new malware is originated that can spoof the user interfaces of Uber,
Whatsapp, Google Play, Youtube and few other messaging apps.

This malware is
already spread in countries like Denmark,
Italy and Germany. The
old traditional Phishing technique is used to deploy and spread this malware.

Phishingis the attempt to acquiresensitive informationsuch as usernames, passwords, andcredit carddetails.
In Phishing attack a clone is created of a website that acquires personal
information from victim that is then emailed to the attacker.

In this case, the malware has
been spreading through a Phishing campaign over SMS (Short Messaging Service). Once
downloaded, the malware will create fake user interfaces of different apps on
the phone. These interfaces further ask for credit card information and then
send the entered data to the attacker.

This family of malware
continues to evolve, earlier in February 2016 FireEye
had observed 55 malicious programs with same technique used. The earlier
version was spoofing banking websites, but now this malware can spoof more
popular applications like Youtube, Whatsapp and Google Play.

"Threat actors usually want to gain the largest
financial benefit. So they typically target these apps that have a large user
base”.

Nowadays, tricking victims
into clicking on your malicious link is an easy task. The attacker used some
easy tricks to make their links appealing to be clicked. To spread the
malware, the hackers have sent a SMS messages with a link and tricked their victims
into clicking on it. The SMS message said: “We could not deliver your order.
Please check your shipping information here”.

According to research by FireEye, this malware is spread by
five different campaigns and in one campaign hackers managed to get 130,000
clicks on their links where the malware was hosted.

Newer version of malware will be more powerful and
undetectable, as only six out of 54 antivirus tools tested noticed the
malicious coding behind these messages and emails. This malware is now has been
found on servers in United Arab Emirates,
Germany, Italy and the
Netherland.

Malware Stealing Money by Pretending to be Whatsapp, GooglePlay and Other Famous Apps
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